Self-filling fountain-pen.



J. A. VOGELMANN.

SFLF FILLING FOUNTAIN FFN.

APPLICATION FILED FBB.25,1909. 940,909.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

witness@ 1/ UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

.I'OSEPII'I A. VOGELMANN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SELF-FILLING- FOUNTAIN-PEN.

To all 'whom it may concern:

B'e it known that I, JOSEPH A. VOGEL- MANN, a citizen of the United States, residingl at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of `New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Self-Filling Fountain-Pens; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper- .tains to make and use .the same.

,My invention, relates to fountain pens and particularly to self-filling pens of this character.

The object of the invention is the provision of a simple and easily'operated pen which will be cheap to manufacture and which will have no joint at its forward or ink-distributing end, thus absolutely preventing leakage which otherwise might occur. l

, A further vobject of the invention is to appended claim.

-cementing or otherwise.

provide an ink-reservoir with a valve plunger sliding therein adapted to suck ink from a well or other suitable source to the inkreservoir through the ink-distributing end-v and to automatically open the valve in the plunger so that the ink will runinto the reservoir and not be forced out of the pen plunger is forced to normalholder when the position.

With these and other'objects in view, the inventlon consists of certain novelv features of construction, combination and arran ementV of parts, as will be more fully escribed and particularly pointed yout in the In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 1s 'a longltudlnal sectional view; Fig. 2 is a transverse section, on the line 2-2 of Fig.

1; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1;,and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view, with the plunger partly retracted and showing how .the pen is used to suck up ink from a well or other Referring more especially tothe drawings,

l represents a tubular body having a valve chamber 2 arrangedat one end, adjacent the pen-holder 3, which is secured' `therein by Adjoining the valve chamber 2 and in the rear end thereof -is an ink-reservoir 4 which is closed at the rear end of the pen by a pair of plugs v5 and 6, the former threaded into the tubular b ody 1, and having a socket in its` outer end to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. '23,.19095 Application filed February 25,1909. seria1-No.479,sss. 'Y l receive the latter. Secured to the plug-36`l` and passing through an enlarged aperture 7 in the plug 5 is a plunger rod 8 which isl connected to the apertured plunger 9 mounted upon the reduced end 10 of the plunger and .held in position upon the reduced end by a shoulder l1 and a valve plate 12, the latter being screwed Vupon the end of the reduction 10. The plunger, as shown, is provided with a pair of arcuate vslots 13 so arranged in the plunger that they may be covered by the valve plate 12. lt will be noted that the plunger is cup-shaped with its side walls extending into the ink-reservoir so that little or no room is taken up thereby and also that the plunger rod 8 is reduced along its entire length, except adjacent the plunver where it is enlarged to form the shouldber 1l. The plug 6 is provided with a knurled nut or head 14, by which the same may be unscrewed from its socket in the plug 5. As the rod 8 is secured to the plug 6 the plunger rod and valve plate turn' with respect to the plunger until the latter is engaged with the face of the plunger, at whichtime the plungerwill be moved with the plate. After the plug has been completely withdrawn from its threaded engagement with the plug 5, the plunger may be drawn up into the lnk-reservoir to thus draw in the ink from the well or other suitable source and thereby lill the ink-reservoir. It will be noticed that when the plunger is again forced forward in the ink-reservoir the reduced part 10 of the rod will slide freely through the plunger, permittmg the plate 12 to free itself therefrom and allow egress of the ink from one side of the plunger to the other. When the plug 6:15 again screwed into the plug 5the shoulder a formed by the reduced part 10 engagesthe plunger and forcesl it tor/normal posltion, where it remains adjacent/the valve chainbel' 2. i

Both ends of thepn are tapered, as is usual, as shown at 15, to receive the protect- ,in .cap v16, `and/,the pen-holder 1s chan- `\`ne ed at 17, aS',,s usual, to permit the outflow and in-iow of ink.

From the/'foregoing description, taken connection/,width the accompanying drawings,"

the construction and operation of the invenquirifng-a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportlon vv,and the minor details "of construction lmay be resorted to without departing from the prinpicle or sacrificing any of the advan-A tages of this invention, as defined in the ap ended claim.

aving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A fountain pen comprising. a tubular body having an enlar ed chamber in one end thereof, a channe ed pen. holder closing the end of the body adjacent said chamber, a piston mounted for reciprocation in said body and having a plurality of passage lways therethrough, means to reciprocate piston,

and means the reciprocatmg means for closing the -passages m vthe piston during one movement:` thereof,

said means adapted to lie the chamber when inactive so as to permit the flow of ink therearoundto the pen holder.

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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set LEWIS D. LUNNIGAN, l WILLIAM F. DAUNT. 

